Beak

beak
top to bottom: black skimmer, male pileated woodpecker, and male American goldfinch
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Beak-Head,
An ornament found in Carved Norman doorways, shaped like a grotesque bird or beast with beaks. Usually biting into a roll-moulding.
Belfry.

beak-head
An ornamental motif resembling a bird's head with a prominent beak. It was common in English Romanesque architectural decoration. See also other repetative decorative motifs
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corbellus, a diminutive of corvus, a raven, on account of the beak-like appearance; Ital. mensola, Fr. corbeau, cul-de-lampe, Ger. Kragstein), ...

The word "corbel" comes from Old French and derives from the Latin corbellus, a diminutive of corvus (a raven) which refers to the beak-like appearance.

Best known are - Bird's beak; Bead and reel; Cable, (like a rope); Cavetto, (a moulding with a concave profile describing a quater of a circle); Chevron; Cyma recta, (convex to concave); Cyma reversa, or ogee, (concave to convex); ...

Moulding shaped into a beak-like form.
Beam
A structural member that caries a load. Beams are usually placed horizontally and care a vertical load where the weight is transferred to walls, girders or columns.

French: "corbel" = a raven; hence, a beak-like projection
Found in almost all styles of architecture
An ancone is a type of corbel ...

Griffin, or gryphon, comes from the Greek word for curved or hooked nose, grypos, like an eagle's beak. A griffin may serve as a drainage gutter or its role can be purely symbolic.

The word comes from the Latin word for raven, corvus, because of the similarity to the shape of a raven's beak. Corbels are often carved with decoration, especially in churches. Thus you might get a 'foliate corbel', i.e.

See also: Architecture, Classical, Ornament, Capital, Moulding